The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends MeetSyracuse University Press, 1995 - 472 pages This original and wide-ranging study explores the "economies" of Ulysses using a number of different critical and theoretical methods. Not only do the economic circumstances of the characters Some of the subjects and topics covered include Joyce's own "spendthrift" background, gift exchanges and reciprocity as a fundamental means of reader/author relationship in the novel, money and language, Bloom as an "economic man," the "narrative economy" of "Wandering Rocks," the relationship between commerce and eroticism, the function of sacrifice in the creation of value, counterfeiting, forgery, and other crimes of writing, and a demonstration of how the |
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... conventional - albeit striking - poetic devices ) announce themselves as metaphors , as both substitutions for , and representations of , a stable world . Such extravagant tropes both reflect and produce exchanges , as they ...
... conventional , and insti- tutional discourses , none of which acknowledges its relativity and some of which pretend to be " connected with a past that is felt to be hierarchically higher , " as if speaking " the word of the fathers ...
... conventional representation capable of being exchanged for others . Transvestism is to identity what prostitution is to commodity culture : both announce that the body is merely an object to be sold , decorated or exchanged . Thus Bloom ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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